[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 249 (Thursday, December 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 77145]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-8093]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

    Pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific and 
Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651; 80 Stat. 
897; 15 CFR part 301), we invite comments on the question of whether 
instruments of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which 
the instruments shown below are intended to be used, are being 
manufactured in the United States.
    Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the 
regulations and be filed within 20 days with the Statutory Import 
Programs Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230. 
Applications may be examined between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Suite 
4100W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th 
Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 05-052. Applicant: University of Texas, Medical 
Branch at Galveston, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-2100. Manufacturer: JEOL 
Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to 
determine high-resolution, three dimensional structures of large 
biological entities such as protein, DNA, and RNA assemblies, cellular 
organelles, and tissues and to develop electron tomography to obtain 
structures of asymmetrical assemblies and of whole cells or large 
organelles. It will also be used to train graduate students and post-
doctoral scientists in macromolecular structure determination and 
electron microscopy. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
December 1, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-053. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 
4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789. Instrument: 
Electron Microscope, Model Techni G[bds2] F20 TWIN. Manufacturer: FEI 
Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to 
be used for studying the structural analysis of biological complexes 
that makes them cellular units of function, and the structural bases 
for regulating such complexes including structural characterization of 
microtubules and their interaction with cellular factors and 
antimitotic ligands, transcription initiation and regulation, and the 
molecular machinery involved in transcription-coupled DNA repair. It 
will also be used for undergraduate and graduate research. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 7, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-054. Applicant: University of Illinois, Suite 212 
Tech Plaza, 616 East Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820. Instrument: 
Curved Image Plate Detector. Manufacturer: Technische Universitat 
Darmstadt, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used 
to develop a fast, high-resolution, x-ray powder diffraction apparatus 
using a beamline facility at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne 
National Laboratory. It will be employed to study in-situ, high 
temperature (to 2000 degrees C) material properties and behavior of 
ceramics and ceramic composites including phase transformation 
mechanisms (e.g., martensitic), the kinetics of phase transformations 
and the chemical reactions of binary and ternary mixtures of ceramic 
materials, and phase equilibria and phase diagrams with the general 
goal of developing tougher and stronger high temperature structural 
composites. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 
7, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-055. Applicant: Rutgers, The State University of 
New Jersey, 3 Rutgers Plaza, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-88559. Instrument: 
Near-field Optical Microscope for integration with micro-Raman. 
Manufacturer: Nanonics Imaging Ltd., Israel. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used to image the structure and map the 
chemistry of example nanostructured materials (such as silicon 
wafers)in a variety of undergraduate laboratory courses involving 
nanomaterials. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
December 9, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-056. Applicant: University of Illinois at 
Chicago, Department of Physics (m/c 273), 845 West Taylor Street, 
Chicago, IL 60607-7059. Instrument: Magnesium Fluoride Windows. 
Manufacturer: Laser-Laboratorium, Gottingen, Germany. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used to provide amplification of a light 
beam to a power above 10 to the 12th W for studies including the 
following:
1. Measuring fragments such as ions and photons of materials irradiated 
directly with an intense ultraviolet beam
2. Determining the energy flow and the nature of secondary radiation 
produced
3. Instrumental control of the focus, thereby maximizing the intensity 
at which such experiments can be conducted
4. Studying absorption and excitation.
    The instrument will also be used for instruction of graduate 
students. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 9, 
2005

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E5-8093 Filed 12-28-05; 8:45 am]
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